DIVISION FIVE — NAMES. 353 



I. G. Sigler, two Methodist preachers. Named from Washington Irving's 

 "Arcadia." 



Arlington Drive. — Opened and named by C. H. Richardson of Pasa- 

 dena and Dr. W. G. Cochran of Los Angeles, in November, 1885. But 

 just why this name was given I failed to learn. 



Ashtabula Street. — Mr. Elon Hart first opened this street and was 

 going to name it in honor of Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio. Then I sug- 

 gested that as there were so many people named Giddings residing here, the 

 name would miss of its historic intent. But if he would name it Ashtabula, 

 after the county and district in northeastern Ohio [the historic "Western Re- 

 serve"] which sent Giddings to congress continuously for seventeen years as 

 an anti-slavery champion, between 1840 and i860, I thought this special 

 historic association would cling to it for all time. So he named it Ashtabula 

 street. This was, I think, in 1887. 



Arroyo Drive. — This street or roadway was laid out by the original 

 colonists, and so named because it followed the meander line of the Ar- 

 royo's east bank ; and also because it was the road they must follow to get 

 down to their wood lots — these being narrow strips or allotments of tim- 

 bered land which stretched from this Arroyo Drive on the east down the 

 steep, high bank, thence across the wash, thence up the wooded hill-slopes 

 west of the Arroyo. 



Bandini Avenue. — Opened first by D. W. Shelhamer, and named in 

 honor of the historic family represented by Arturo Bandini, a native 

 Spaniard, whose land it passed through, and whose father was a historic 

 personage. [See pages 80, 87, etc.]"*" (Arturo Bandini married the daughter 

 of Dr. T. B. Elliott, president of the original "Indiana Colony," and has 

 taken a leading part in the hunting and field sports of Pasadena from its 

 foundation.) Bayard T. Smith, J. A. Wood and others opened it as Ban- 

 dini Avenue south of California street. Other parties opened a northward 

 extension of this avenue, but ignored the local historic fitness of the name 

 with which Mr. Shelhamer, Bayard Smith, Mr. Wood and Mr. Bandini had 

 started it, and dubbed their portion " Michigan Avenue," in direct violation 

 of the uniform custom in Pasadena, by which any extension of a street al- 

 ways carried the name applied at its first opening — probably through ig- 

 norance of the relations of Mr. Bandini's father and mother to the Amer- 

 ican acquisition and occupancy of this country. And if that perversion of 



*Col. R. S. Baker, of Baker block fame in Los Angeles, came to California in 1849, and died May 

 26, 1894. And in a brief sketch ot his life the Los Angeles //«ra/rfgave this bit of history : " In 1874 he 

 married the widow of Don Abel Stearns, daughter of Don Juan Bandini, who was half owner [with 

 Stearns] at one time of nearly the whole of Southern California" Don Juan Bandini's father is buried 

 under the flag stones at San Gabriel : and his grandfather was captain of the Spanish war ship Reina in 



wordof honor to return them; but they have never been able to get back a sheet of it since. 

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